Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: ... >> Hanging around for months waiting, being continually "reassured" >> in non-public conversations that allegedly better code is going >> to get integrated is *NOT* a useful way of encouraging other >> driver authors to bother offering their code to Sun for inclusion >> in OpenSolaris. > Yes, I agree, but we get more. We get the vendor to support their own > hardware, and I think that's preferable. We get an open source driver > from LSI, that in itself could be a first (I know you're skeptical), and > we get management software for the driver, although it won't be open, I > think you will agree that having management software for RAID is > desirable for any user.
Hi Alan, with the above in mind, please tell me when you or Pat plan to provide: - ARC materials for megasas in Solaris - ARC materials for the megasas management utils in Solaris - the date by which time megasas driver and management code will be delivered by LSI to Sun James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
